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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"post-concussive symptoms"”.
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Injury Setting and Social Support as Moderators of the Effects of Pediatric Concussion on Post-Concussive Symptoms
… cognitive, and emotional problems, known as post-concussive symptoms (PCS). Although most children recover from concussions without complication, a subset are hindered by persistent PCS that reduce their quality of life. Previous research tends to differentiate between …
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Cerebral Metabolic and Neuropsychological Outcomes Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
… quality of life in mTBI subjects with chronic post-concussive symptoms. The mTBI subjects performed worse than controls on neuropsychological measures, endorsed poorer mood and reported significantly poorer perceived quality of life than healthy controls. Additionally, cerebral metabolic …
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The KATP -Knockout Mouse: A Model of Susceptibility to Post-Concussion Syndrome
… approximately 15% of these patients will have post- concussive symptoms that last longer than three months. Knowledge of the pathophysiological processes underlying susceptibility to poor outcomes is limited, which has impaired the development of effective therapeutics for patients with a mTBI. …
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Elucidating the Impact of Previous Head Injury on Cognition, Brain Structure, and Pathophysiology in Cognitively Normal Individuals Across the Adult Lifespan
… and the majority of individuals recover from post-concussive symptoms within several months. However, long-term effects of mTBI on brain structure and function are more poorly understood. The current studies sought to determine potential long-term effects of mTBI history and history of sports …
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Distinct forms of depression and somatization following head injury: A neuropsychological framework and exploratory treatment paradigm for somatic symptoms and executive dysfunction following mild head injury
Psychiatric symptoms following traumatic brain injury (TBI) pose a significant barrier to neurorehabilitation and impact survivor’s life satisfaction following injury. Depressive and somatization symptoms are common clinical presentations postinjury; however, due to the paucity of etiological …
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From Acute Injury to Chronic Disease: Exploring the Neurological Consequences of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury through Functional Neuroimaging
… and/or symptomatic recovery at 6 months post-injury. This chapter further identifies that common structural neuroimaging methods or blood-based biomarkers are not associated with poor outcome in this cohort, necessitating the need for novel markers of chronic outcome. Chapter 3 …